Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes to Rock your Thanksgiving Weekend

What’s the second best thing about Thanksgiving dinner? The leftovers! But aren’t you tired of simply microwaving them time and time again? So Here are some ideas on how to prepare those leftovers into something new! These turkey leftovers recipes will serve you and your family well post-Thanksgiving.

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” - W. Clement Stone

The All-Encompassing Thanksgiving Leftover Casserole

Here’s an amazing dish that makes the most out of the Thanksgiving leftovers you have in your fridge. Essentially you can gather all the leftovers into this one meal. The Thanksgiving leftover casserole is a layered dish that makes the most out of each distinct flavor.

If you like your Thanksgiving meals more juicy, add more broth. If you like them to be more dry, just add more stuffing. Find the right blend for your palate.

Mix and match the following ingredients for the leftover turkey casserole:

Turkey

Stuffing

Potatoes

Corn

Gravy

Sausage

Cranberry sauce

Chicken broth

Milk

Turkey Pot Pie

One of the most direct approaches to using Thanksgiving leftovers, just bake it all up in a pie.When it comes to leftover turkey recipes, slow cooker fans will love this pie technique. For this recipe you will need the following, be it leftovers or fresh.

Flour

Salt

Vegetable shortening

Turkey

Carrots

Onions

Butter

Celery

Flour

Pepper

Chicken broth

Green beans

Mushroom soup

Game Changer: Thanksgiving Pizza

You’ve seen the casserole, you’ve seen the pie, you’ve probably eaten the sandwich. Now go next level with this Thanksgiving leftover pizza. Unlike other leftover turkey pasta recipes, this dish is mostly baking an open faced pie and slicing it like a pizza. The end result is a magnificent Thanksgivingcreation that uses gravy instead of tomato sauce.

Loaded Turkey Pesto Panini

Another one of the healthy leftover turkey recipes, the pesto panini tastes great with turkey. All you really need is a panini press (or a Foreman grill) and the right kind of bread (ciabatta, focaccia, or whole grain baguette). Fill that up with your favorite sides such as stuffing, gravy, cheese, or cranberry sauce and you’ve got one heck of a sandwich.

Leftover Turkey & Rice Soup

Here’s an easy one to cover all your bases. With enough chicken broth, you can make soup out of anything leftover from the Thanksgiving table. Leftover turkey soup recipes tend to be easiest because you’re essentially just adding a few ingredients to the leftovers and broth and simply heating that up. And here are some of the ingredients you can add, personal taste is the main factor here.

Rice

Thyme

Onion

Bacon

Peppers

Garlic

Basil

White wine

Parsley

What to Do with All Those Leftover Potatoes and Stuffing

This is a great way to celebrate the day after Thanksgiving. Source: One Crazy House

The real reason you Googled “turkey leftovers recipes.“ Everyone already ate all the turkey, ham, and main dishes. Now you’re stuck with the sides: potatoes and stuffing. Well fear not, we have the recipe for you. These mashed potato and stuffing patties are the perfect dish to use up the rest of the thanksgiving leftovers that somehow survived in the fridge for this long.

How to Make Them:

In a large bowl, start beating two eggs and then slowly and methodically stir in the following ingredients:

Onions

Peppers

Mashed potatoes

Turkey

Stuffing

Add some oil and butter to a skillet, then:

Pour gently or scoop the potato mixture onto the pan like pancakes

Press down on the cakes with the back of a spatula

Fry evenly on both sides for 3 minutes

Rest on a paper towel

Optional: add a fried egg and/or some bacon

Serve immediately

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